Categoria Atlas: Approaches

  • Teaching architecture in a fragmented world

    Luigiemanuele Amabile in conversation con Wolfgang Brune. Shaped by an awareness of the fragmented nature of the contemporary world, Wolfgang Brune’s approach to teaching places architectural education between urgency and continuity. Environmental responsibility, resource awareness and social issues are acknowledged as inevitable, yet they are approached through a return to a fundamental aspiration: designing buildings…

  • The pedagogy of the complete gesture

    The philosophy of the gesture originates within American pragmatism, whose essential characteristic is that it is an anti-dichotomous philosophy, standing against the distinctions between description/norm, body/spirit, mind/brain, theory/practice, and so on – distinctions rooted in Cartesian and Kantian culture. Of course, we are talking about a certain interpretation of Descartes and a certain interpretation of…

  • The design studio as a research program

    “Sense of possibility”: without that, the pedagogy of design studios would make no sense, precisely. With the 1993 reform, courses in architectural composition and design began to be called studios because it was recognized that architectural design is learned by doing; but perhaps it was not stated just as clearly that in design studios, doing…

  • Experimental pedagogy and design studio

    Rethinking pedagogy at an experimental level means renegotiating a field of themes and practices in order to train architects capable of confronting the challenges of the contemporary world and projecting them into the future. This entails reestablishing a creative balance between the construction sector and architecture as one of the principal inventive practices contributing to…